LSU RURAL LIFE MUSEUM & WINDRUSH GARDEN - Baton Rouge Museum

  • 4650 Essen Lane Baton Rouge
    LA, 70809
  • +1 225 765 2437
  • rurallife.lsu.edu
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Louisiana Folk Architecture is exemplified in a collection of seven buildings whose divergent construction traits illustrate the various cultural influences of Louisiana's settlers. - Barn contains hundreds of artifacts dealing with everyday rural life da
LSU RURAL LIFE MUSEUM & WINDRUSH GARDEN
4650 Essen Lane Baton Rouge
LA, 70809
Description
  • ... located on the Burden Research Plantation, a 450 acre agricultural research experiment station owned by the LSU Agricultural ... more on MuseumStuff.com
  • Step back in time to pre-industrial Louisiana at this 27-building ... more on TripAdvisor
  • ... 450-acre Burden Research Plantation, this museum is an outdoor teaching and research facility which is put together in three sections. "The Barn" includes pre-industrial artifacts such as farming implements, household utensils, woodcrafts, ... more on Travel.yahoo.com
  • ... Burden Research Plantation, Rural Life provides insight into the largely forgotten lifestyles and cultures of pre-industrial Louisiana. Adjacent to the original Burden home, Windrush Gardens feature about 15 acres of semiformal gardens, ... more on VisitBatonRouge.com
  • ... pre-industrial Louisianans are the subject of this unusual museum. The museum is located at the Burden Research Plantation, a working research center for Louisiana State University. The museum's collection is presented in three parts: ... more on Weather.com
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5.0
Gem of A Find

(Jan 22, 2005)

... traveling on the interstate when we saw the sign, "Rural Life Museum". We took the exit and went... We have told everyone we know about this museum. It not only is a museum but a replica of a small settlement, containing slave quarters ... A TripAdvisor Member, a user of Tripadvisor. Reviews from TripAdvisor

Web Resources
  • rurallife.lsu.edu
  • http://www.visitbatonrouge.com
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